Spanning over eight metres high, the new work is the 81-year-old’s first in stained glass.
Designed on his iPad and set in Hockney’s Yorkshire birthplace, it reflects the Queen’s love for, and connection with, the countryside.
Hockney was commissioned to create the window to celebrate the Queen’s reign.
The brightly-coloured abstract window of yellow, red, blue, pink, orange and greens, features hawthorn blossom and stands out in its historic setting.
Hockney told the Press Association that the iPad was “a natural thing to use” because it is “back-lit like a window”.
The much-loved artist, who recently broke his own auction record with a £21.1 million painting, said that designing his first stained glass window “was a challenge” adding: “I’ve learnt something about glass.”
He said of wanting to depict the countryside: “Landscape is nature. The previous window put up in here was also nature, lilies.
“I chose the hawthorn which is (for) four days (like) the moment when champagne looks as though it’s been poured over all the bushes.
“It’s a rather celebratory thing. It’s the height of the spring and summer”.
The artist said of the window’s Westminster Abbey home: “I know this is a historic place and I know it’s going to last.”
Hockney once said that he turned down the chance to paint the Queen because he was “very busy…
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